CONFERENCES
2018 International
Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference
October 4th-6th
The International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference is
hosted by the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student Center at the
University of Central Oklahoma. “The Center” promotes intellectual engagement
with Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality issues.
The Center invites proposals for presentations at the Third
International Gender and Sexuality Studies Conference. This international
interdisciplinary conference welcomes proposals for presentations in a variety
of formats that address issues of gender and sexuality in the social sciences,
humanities, fine arts, and STEM fields. We invite students, faculty, staff,
scholars, and activists to propose papers, panels, roundtable discussions, and
poster presentations. We also welcome proposals to present or perform creative
work including creative writing, drama, music, and visual art.
Abstracts should be submitted to thecenteratuco@gmail.com
The deadline to submit your paper for consideration is May
6, 2018
For more questions, please reach out to Dr. Lindsey
Churchill, Director of the Women’s Research Center and the BGLTQ+ Student
Center at lchurchill@uco.edu.
Fandom and Neomedia
Studies (FANS) Conference
We are pleased to announce a CFP for submissions to the
Sixth Annual Fandom and Neomedia Studies (FANS) Conference in Ft. Worth, TX,
9-10 June 2018.
Ours is an interdisciplinary group, including historians,
psychologists, scientists, writers, independent scholars, and industry
professionals. This allows for a wide range of opinions in our peer review
process, both for the conference and the journal. We welcome contributions from
all disciplines and from all levels of academic achievement as we value the
intersection of fandom and academia. Our conference is thus unique in its blend
of traditional and modern elements. Submissions are welcome from professors,
students, and independent researchers. Topics may come from anime, manga, science
fiction, television series, movies, radio, performing arts, or any other
popular culture phenomenon and their respective fandom groups.
Abstracts of no more than 500 words must be submitted by 15
April 2018.
Contact Email: FANSConference@gmail.com
Alternatives to the
Present
Alternatives to the Present: A Conference on Architecture,
Urbanism, Sociology, Development & Planning, Nov 1st – 2nd 2018, Cleveland,
Ohio, USA
This conference brings together poeple from various
discilpines to discuss and critique the social, political and design issues
facing those seeking alternative mdoes fo urban and community development
today.
Abstracts due: 5th June
Contact Email: info@architecturemps.com
Arrival Cities:
Migrating Artists and New Metropolitan Topographies
Munich, 30 November – 1 December 2018
Focusing on the intersections of exile, artistic practice
and urban space, this international conference will bring together researchers
committed to revising the historiography of ‘modern’ art. Part of the ERC
research project Relocating Modernism: Global Metropolises, Modern Art and
Exile (METROMOD), it will address metropolitan areas that were settled by
migrant artists in the first half of the 20th century. These so-called “arrival
cities” (Doug Saunders, 2011), were hubs of artistic activities and
transcultural contact zones where ideas circulated, collaborations emerged and
concepts developed. Taking cities as a starting point, this conference will
explore how urban topographies and artistic landscapes were modified by exiled
artists re-establishing their practices in metropolises across the world.
Proposals in English of up to 300 words along with a
half-page CV should be submitted in one document (pdf) to laura.karp.lugo@kunstgeschichte.uni-muenchen.de by
15 April 2018
Ecopoetics and the
Animal
MLA 2019 Conference
This panel seeks work that examines the intersection of
animal studies with contemporary ecopoetry from around the world. The
human/nonhuman distinction entails an interdiction as much as establishes the
safety of a boundary that maintains human hegemony in relation to other
species. Yet, the animal can powerfully redirect attention toward the necessity
of humility as well as deconstruct ideas of autonomy and superiority too often
entangled with human self-understanding. This panel asks how the animal negates
or reifies the human/nonhuman distinction, but also how the animal speaks, or
is silenced, in contemporary ecopoetry. How does the animal appear as an
ethical imperative in the age of the Anthropocene and of the Sixth Mass
Extinction?
Please send 250/300words abstract by March 15 to Isabel
Sobral Campos, icampos@mtech.edu.
Photography,
Migration and Cultural Encounters in America
Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, June
20th – 22nd 2018
The exploration of photography and migration has emerged as
a significant topic within a range of humanities and social science disciplines
over the last decade, demonstrating a growing interest in exploring the
intersection of questions around human displacement and the cultural
configurations of diasporic experience and identities through the frameworks of
photography studies, visual studies and art history. Proposals are welcomed
that explore the culturally differentiated uses and signifying practices of
everyday photographic materials and technologies in migrant communities.
Please submit a proposal of 300-500 words, a short bio,
institutional affiliation and email address as an attachment in Word format by
March 29th to; justin.carville@iadt.ie.
The Future of African
Public Theology
April 30-May 1, 2018 Calvin College and Seminary Grand
Rapids, Michigan
The purpose of the conference is to pursue a conversation
between African public theologians from a variety of perspectives and Reformed
Christian scholars from several continents about the state of African public
theology, the need for it, and the promise it holds for informing Christian
thinking and practice on the African continent and beyond. Proposals for concurrent sessions are also welcome
on any topics that engage with aspects of the work of Abraham Kuyper,
neocalvinism more broadly, and public theology and public life.
PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 23, 2018
Contact Email: jballor1@calvinseminary.edu
Fragile Sovereignty,
Precarious Transactions
In response to the MLA’s 2019 Presidential Theme, “Textual
Transactions,” this session invites papers to consider forms of sovereignty,
precarity, and fragility as effects and producers of mediated transactions:
textual, material, digital, visual, and aural. All approaches and periods
welcome. 250-word abstract by 10 March 2018; Jen Boyle (jboyle@coastal.edu) and Wan-Chuan Kao (kaow@wlu.edu).
Race Hate: The New
Normal?
The Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference
(NEPOC) and the Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty (CAPALF) 2018
Joint Conference
May 31 - June 1, 2018, Albany Law School, Albany, New York
For a time it was fashionable to describe racism as a thing
of the past. Racism was a relic, a specter, a mystic chord of memory. Racism
was bad form, anachronistic, irrelevant, a cake that someone left out in the
rain. Once upon a time, racism existed, but the election of Barack Obama as the
44th president of the United States was” goodbye to all that.” ”We’re all
post-racialist now.” But we have never been post-racial.
We hope to address the present crisis at the NEPOC/CAPALF
conference in Albany, New York. Toward that end, we are calling for panels and
paper presentations from interested scholars on the subject of race hatred in
the age of Trump.
If you are interested in proposing a group panel along these
lines, please email NEPOC2018@albanylaw.edu with
a description of your group panel, including the names of the panelists you
have enlisted, by April 30, 2018
A Space for
Translation: Thresholds of Interpretation
10-12 December 2018, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Space and spatial metaphors for translation have been more
prevalent in translation research than time and temporal metaphors, although
they are also often inter-related. Researchers have proposed translation as a
borderland or boundary of a social system (following Luhmann), translators as
inhabiting a third space (Pym’s pirates), and translators as inhabiting
cultural space (following Bourdieu).
For this conference we would like to concentrate on two
aspects of the spatial dimension of translation, one real, the other
metaphorical. For the real, we invite papers that consider translation and/in
colonial spaces or translation and migrant spaces. For the metaphorical, we are
interested in translation theorized as liminal activity.
Proposals for individual papers (20 minute presentations) or
panels (3-4 papers) should be submitted on or before 31 May 2018 to
SpaceForTranslation@cuhk.edu.hk.
THE SOCIAL JUSTICE
INTERVENTIONS OF #WENEEDDIVERSEBOOKS
Recent activist work in the field of children's and young
adult literature has focused on the lack of diverse protagonists and created a
variety of initiatives to change that fact, including the #weneeddiversebooks
campaign. The desire to improve diverse representations in children’s and young
adult literature aligns with recent research into how an individual comes to
understand that others have complex inner lives that may differ from our own,
often studied in psychology as Theory of the Mind (ToM). Recent studies of ToM
and fiction show literature’s power, as an art form, to increase readers’
empathy and engagement with others. Both minority readers and privileged
populations, therefore, need diverse books. This panel at SAMLA 90, dedicated
to “Fighters from the Margins,” asks for essays that investigate the power of
diverse books, in order to continue the work of #weneeddiversebooks.
Proposals of 250 words, a short biography, and AV needs are
due May 31st.
Contact Email: rachel.dean-ruzicka@lmc.gatech.edu
Energies: Power,
Creativity and Afro-Futures
61st Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association,
November 29 - December 1, 2018, Atlanta Marriott Marquis
We are soliciting proposals for papers, panels, roundtables,
Author meets Critic, and flash sessions. Presentations may focus on the theme
of “Energies: Power, Creativity and Afro-Futures” or on broader social science,
humanities, and applied themes relating to Africa. We strongly encourage the
submission of formed panels. You can find more information about the theme and
the call for proposals on the ASA website.
Deadline for proposal submissions: March 15, 2018
Contact Email: renee@africanstudies.org
Africans, African
Americans, Academia, and Activism
Bowie State University, April 5-7, 2018
The Gloria Richardson Humanities Initiative at Bowie State
University, therefore, invites individual paper and panel proposals for
presentations at its second conference. Presentations may address any aspect of
African, African American, or African Diaspora involvement in activism and/or
protest on college or university campuses, or for demands for access to
education at any level at any time anywhere in Africa, the United States,
and/or the African Diaspora.
Please submit individual paper proposals (c.300 words),
panel proposals (c. 500 words) and a brief CV (2pp. maximum) for each presenter
by Saturday, March 10, 2018 to Dr. Nicholas Creary, Humanities@bowiestate.edu
Archiving Feminist
Futures – Temporality and Gender in Cultural Analysis
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, November 1–3, 2018
The conference “Archiving Feminist Futures” builds on
current debates around “feminist futures” and “queer temporalities”, which
encourage us to consider temporality from an intersectional perspective. Time,
in this sense, is regarded as a gendered phenomenon. The conference theme
thereby also refers to the persistent discussion within cultural anthropology
about the nexus of “time and the other” (Fabian 2002). How are time and
temporality being practiced, narrated, placed, and made tangible? Specifically,
we aim to investigate the very parameters of power and inequality that arise
from these constellations. The academic practices of ethnography and archiving
include an important anticipatory element, as they always assume and imagine a
future for which we describe, archive, and pass on. In this sense, we would
like to approach the everyday, political, and methodological dimensions of time
and temporality.
Please include the title of your talk or presentation, a
short bio, and brief abstract of no more than 300 words (in German or English).
Please send your proposal to future.archives.ifee@hu-berlin.de by
March 30, 2018.
Graduate Conference -
Violence, Memory, and History in Latin America
The University of California, Santa Barbara will host its
first Latin American and Iberian Studies Graduate Conference for MA and PhD
students in southern California and beyond on May 18th, 2018. It will have as
its theme Violence, Memory, and History, broadly defined, but papers on other
subjects will also be considered.
Abstracts are due no later than March 15th, 2018.
Contact Email: jcobo+lais@ucsb.edu
decolonizing
curricula
African Studies Association conference 2018, Atlanta,
Georgia from November 29th to December 1st, 2018
Tentatively titled ""Decolonizing the Curriculum in
the Age of Assessment, Utility, and Neo-Liberal Rivalry," the panel as a
whole would link the curricular challenges African universities have (and have
had) to the challenges faced outside Africa, whether in American HBCUs,
historically white universities in Europe or America, or universities elsewhere
in the world. How do universities, anywhere in the world, best serve their
students and the societies in which they are situated? In Mamdani's terms,
should they prioritize a "universalist" approach, or should they aim
for local "relevance"? How can African faculty and university
administrators channel intellectual, creative, and cultural energies in ways
that lead to positive "afro-futures"? How can faculty and university
administrators outside Africa create curricula that perform academic
reparations? How have pressures on curricula changed over time since
independence? What are the greatest pressures contemporary universities face
thwarting the development of curricula that channel intellectual, creative, and
cultural energies toward healthy afrofutures?
Please send brief outlines (300-500 words) and a brief
biographical statement to Simon Lewis, at lewiss@cofc.edu before
the end of business on March 10th, 2018.
For full details of the ASA conference, see https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings/call-for-proposals/.
Global Labor
Migration: Past and Present
June 20-22, 2019, at the International Institute for Social
History in Amsterdam.
Labor migration is a vast, global, and highly fluid
phenomenon in the 21st century, capturing public attention and driving
political controversy. There are more
labor migrants working in areas beyond their birth country or region than ever
before. Although scattered across the
social ladder, migrant workers have always clustered, at least initially, in
the bottom rungs of the working class.
Clearly, there is a need to combat fear with understanding and to reach
for improved global regulations and standards to protect the rights and welfare
of migrants alongside those of host country working people.
Involving scholars and activists from diverse parts of the
globe and drawing on a wide variety of disciplines—including history,
sociology, anthropology, ethnic studies, women and gender studies, public
health, law and public policy—the global summit will bring attention to one of
the world’s most pressing issues, generate scholarly dialogue and new research
agendas, and propose policies that can improve conditions for migrants.
For more information about the conference, please
visit https://go.umd.edu/xmL. For
non-technical questions concerning submission guidelines, eligibilities, or
submission status, please contact globalmigration@umd.edu.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 11:59 p.m. EST,
July 1, 2018
Seeing Like a
Capitalist: Histories of Commercial Surveillance in America
For a conference sponsored by the Center for the History of
Business, Technology, and Society in Wilmington, Delaware, on November 8-9,
2018, we invite proposals that explore the history of commercial surveillance
in the United States, from settlement to the present.
The history of surveillance is often associated with the
history of the state. However, commercial organizations in the United States –
from insurance companies to audience rating firms and database marketers, to
corporate personnel and auditing departments – also exercise power over
citizens through systems of identification, classification, and
monitoring. The history of commercial
surveillance thus intersects with key issues concerning the history of privacy,
information, social sorting and discrimination, and technologies of discipline
and control.
If you are interested in proposing a paper, please submit
proposals of no more than 500 words and a one-page C.V. to Carol Lockman
at clockman@hagley.org by
May 1, 2018.
Society for the History
of Women in the Americas
Friday 6th July 2018, The Women’s Library, London School of
Economics
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW)
welcomes proposals for its annual conference, co-organised with The Women’s
Library at the London School of Economics. We invite 250 word abstracts for
20-minute presentations on any topic, geographical period, chronological time,
or theme related to the history of women in the Americas. We also welcome
comparative papers between two countries in the Americas or one in the Americas
and a country outside the region. Papers chosen for the conference may be
selected for inclusion in a special issue of History of Women in the Americas
Journal subject to peer-review.
Please submit abstracts along with a 100-word biography
to shawsociety@gmail.com by
the 20th March 2018.
Contact Email: shawsociety@gmail.com
Refugees in
Literature, Film, Art, and Media: Perspectives on the Past and Present
This workshop focuses on the profound and challenging issues
raised by the contemporary global movement of refugees. We welcome researchers
at any career stage from any discipline, as well as writers, artists and
activists, to participate in a one-day workshop that aims to open up new ways
of thinking about refugees and telling the many important, yet untold stories
of migration. We also encourage papers that demonstrate new conceptual tools to
comprehend refugees’ experience and embrace the heterogeneity of ethnicity and
religious beliefs in order to achieve a more nuanced discourse in the media.
Please send a proposal of no more than 300 words together
with a brief biographical sketch of no more than 150 words tolida.amiri@liverpool.ac.uk by March
18th 2018.
Manga, Comics and
Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies
This occasion provides an excellent opportunity to
reconceptualize the study of Japanese culture in a way which meets the
requirements of an increasingly networked and digitalized world. Our conference
seeks to do that with a Media Studies approach that puts the emphasis on
netretaining media, entwines the technological, social and aesthetic, and
acknowledges the importance of everyday practices by non-elite actors.
The conference will be divided in three parts addressing the
key issues of “Japan as Mangaesque” (related to the highly mediatized nature of
contemporary Japanese culture and its global and local mediations rather than
national branding), “Manga Pedagogy” (applying the mediatic perspective to
methodologies of manga studies within university programs and academic
scholarship), and “Manga as Comics” (foregrounding media specifity in relation
to comics in collaboration with the Nordic Network of Comics Research [NNCORE],
in order to go beyond manga studies as a primarily Japan-related area).
Please send an abstract of 200 words, a 100-word bio and
your A/V requirements (as a PDF or Word-Document) to jberndt@su.se or ida.kirkegaard@su.se no later
than 3 April 2018.
Second Annual TAMUG
Conference on Inclusion and Diversity in Higher Education
"Moving In and With the Gaps"
We invite proposals attending to the myriad ways that
practitioners build internal and external relationships with multiple
stakeholders, communicate inclusion and diversity’s significance to multiple
constituencies, take ownership of initiatives and work toward transformative
change. Presentation proposals might
address but are not limited to discussions of the dynamics of diversity,
dimensions of individual differences, diversity and media representations,
educational policies, pedagogy, practices and curricula, the relationship
between democracy, diversity and inclusion, and intersectional identities among
many other potential topics.
Please send your abstract of no more than 400 words to bunch-davis@tamu.edu by April 1,
2018.
Contact Email: bunch-davis@email.tamu.edu
Power
The first annual conference of The Activist History Review
encourages submissions on the theme of power. Trump’s appeal lies not in his
ideological coherence or understanding of the issues, but as a conduit of power
for various conservative constituencies who, until recently, pundits predicted
might be demographically condemned to obscurity. Subsequent polling, the
rhetoric of the 2016 campaign itself, and the election’s outcome suggest that
many who voted for Trump in November were concerned with being permanently
disempowered. If we are to understand a system of power premised on the promise
and threat to “make America great again,” we must investigate the relationship
to power conjured by those who utter it.
Please email proposals of no more than 300 words for panels
and individual papers to Andreas Meyris at ameyris@gwu.edu
by Monday, April 9th, along with a brief bio and current contact information.
Translation and
Adaptation in Comics and Graphic Novels
The field of comics studies is relatively young, but is
quickly growing. To that end, this panel
discusses the translation and adaptation of comics and other graphic narratives
with an emphasis on transnational and digital contexts. What is the ultimate goal of bringing a comic
into a new cultural context or new medium?
What is the value of fidelity in translations and adaptations, and what
efforts are undertaken to retain the meaning of the source text?
This call is for a non-guaranteed panel at the 2019 Modern
Languages Association Convention in Chicago from January 3-6, 2019. A
300-word abstract and a CV are due by March 31st to Peter Bryan at pcb144@psu.edu
The Political Economy
of Migration in Africa
Venue: Enugu, Nigeria
Clearly, the discussion thus far underscores the reality
that the issues of regular and irregular migration are so complex that they
raise very serious questions that beg for answers. Research on such issues are
needed to engage such questions with a view to inform not only government
policies and policy directions, but also theoretical frameworks on migration in
Africa. The present attempt, therefore, is a step to produce meaningful
scholarly research, based on different perspectives, on the phenomenon of
regular and irregular migration in Africa. It is expected that this project
will not only contribute significantly to the literature concerning migration
but also stimulate important policy responses towards addressing associated issues
and challenges.
Interested persons are requested to send an abstract of no
more than 200 words on issues relating to any of the sub-themes to conference@afriheritage.org.
Last Date for Submission of Abstracts: 7 March, 2018
African American
Digital Humanities Conference
October 18-20, 2018 at the University of Maryland, College
Park
The conference will explore how digital studies and digital
humanities-based research, teaching, and community projects can center African
American history and culture. AADHum invites submissions that may include
scholarly inquiry into Black diasporic and African American uses of digital
technologies; digital humanities projects that focus on black history and
culture; race and digital theory; the intersection of black studies and digital
humanities; communication studies, information studies, cultural heritage, and
community-based digital projects; pedagogical interventions; digital tools and
artifacts; black digital humanities and memory; social media and black
activism/movements, etc.
Interested participants are invited to submit proposals for
individual papers, panels, digital posters, tools/digital project
demonstrations, and roundtables by April 9, 2018. Proposals
should be submitted online at: https://www.conftool.pro/aadhum2018/.
For more information and to view the call for proposals,
please check out our website: http://aadhum.umd.edu/conference/.
Questions can be directed to: aadhum@umd.edu.
Global Labor
Migration: Past and Present
June 20-22, 2019, at the International Institute for Social
History in Amsterdam.
Labor migration is a vast, global, and highly fluid
phenomenon in the 21st century, capturing public attention and driving
political controversy. There are more
labor migrants working in areas beyond their birth country or region than ever
before. Although scattered across the
social ladder, migrant workers have always clustered, at least initially, in
the bottom rungs of the working class.
Even as cross-border or inter-regional movement may beckon as a source
of hope and new opportunity, the experience for the migrants and their families
is often fraught with peril.
Involving scholars and activists from diverse parts of the
globe and drawing on a wide variety of disciplines—including history, sociology,
anthropology, ethnic studies, women and gender studies, public health, law and
public policy—the global summit will bring attention to one of the world’s most
pressing issues, generate scholarly dialogue and new research agendas, and
propose policies that can improve conditions for migrants.
For more information about the conference, please
visit https://go.umd.edu/xmL. For non-technical questions concerning submission
guidelines, eligibilities, or submission status, please contact globalmigration@umd.edu.
The deadline for submitting proposals is 11:59 p.m. EST,
July 1, 2018.
Motivating Monuments:
Defining Collective Identities in Public Spaces
University of Pittsburgh held November 2-3, 2018
The goal of this conference is to promote interdisciplinary
discussions about the power invested in monuments and how individual
attachments to them are persistently and profoundly mediated by shared group
identities and will foster productive, in-depth discussions about the shared
stakes of monuments. Conversations will unfold across premodern, early modern,
modern, and contemporary topics, thematically linking research that might
otherwise be isolated by disciplinary or historical divides.
To propose a 20-minute presentation, please send an abstract
of up to 300 words and a CV to pittgradsymposium@gmail.com by
midnight, March 30, 2018.
Borders, Boundaries,
Territories: Creating and Reshaping Collective Identities
The Doctoral School of History of the University of
Bucharest is pleased to announce the commencement and Call for Entries of this
year's International Conference "Borders, Boundaries, Territories.
Creating and Reshaping Collective Identities", which will be held on June
8th - 9th 2018. We would like to invite PhD candidates in history, political
science, international relations, economics or any other related fields, from
all over the world, to an international conference about borders, barriers and
frontiers as they have evolved and shaped human society throughout centuries.
Transnational, regional and global perspectives are especially welcome.
Interested PhD students are invited to submit their
abstracts, along with an academic CV, at sdi.unibuc@gmail.com no later than April
15th.
Memory and
Performance in African-Atlantic Futures
31 August - 2 September 2018 – University of Leeds
At a time when new dynamics are emerging around the issues
of justice (transitional, reparative, etc.), mourning and commemoration in
Africa and its diaspora, the conference “Memory and Performance in
African-Atlantic Futures” seeks to consider the current historical conjuncture
and the extent to which it reveals new questions about memory in the
historical, temporal and social contexts of slavery and imperialism. For
example, how do the growing calls for reparations and the urge to restructure
or challenge the politics of commemoration within imperialist societies point
to the emergence of new “conceptual-ideological problem-spaces” (Scott,
Conscripts of Modernity) in how African-Atlantic postcolonial communities
engage with historical memory? How will an analysis of these dynamics, of the
gaps they point to, and of the urgencies they highlight, foster new
understandings of the stakes that the particular memories of slavery and
imperialism bear within the spaces marked by this history, including the
imperialist societies themselves?
Abstracts in English of no more than 300 words
should be submitted through our website (www.africanatlantic.net) by Friday,
2 March 2018. Abstracts may be submitted by email to afroatlanticfutures@gmail.com.
(Un)Ethical Futures: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction
The organisers of the
(Un)Ethical Futures conference (Melbourne, 15–17 December 2017) invite
contributions for a special themed issue of Colloquy: Text, Theory, Critique
and an edited essay collection, provisionally titled (Un)Ethical Futures:
Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction.
We are interested in
submissions that explore the ethical dimensions of utopia, dystopia and science
fiction (sf). This focus on ethics allows for a range of topics, including
environmental ethics and climate change, human bioethics, animal ethics, the
ethical use of technology, ethics of alterity and otherness, as well as related
issues of social justice. We welcome submissions that bring these ethical
considerations into dialogue with speculative fiction across different genres
and modes, from sf about the near or distant future, to alternative histories
about better or worse presents, to stories about utopian or dystopian
societies.
Deadline for
submissions: 30 April 2018.
Contact Email: g.champion@warwick.ac.uk
PUBLISHING
Non-Worldly
Literature
Over the years, “world literature” has established itself as
a theorizing practice, a discipline-demarcation move, an institutional
exercise, and eventually a field of study in its own right—engaging and
game-changing. At its more controversial end, world literature for some seems
to have turned into an enterprise promoting particular approaches to literature
for the sake of the English-speaking university, emphasizing among other things
a literary work’s circulatability and a pedagogical strategy of anecdotal
narrativity and immediate comprehensibility. At the same time, the publishing
industry, academic and popular, is keen to capitalize on the new category. We
also hear renowned writers admit to hoping their writing to be readily
“translatable.”
In this feature topic, we propose to examine literature
produced anywhere that either does not eye the world (or the globe) for its
self-formation or has not spread outside of its supposed community.
For more information, visit the journal’s website: http://ex-position.org
Contact Email: exposition@ntu.edu.tw
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2018
Essays on Resistance
in Popular Culture
The 21st century has become inculcated with a sense of
perpetual crisis, reflecting a world seemingly on the verge of catastrophe. In
particular, we are interested in essays that focus on the means and methods of
active or subtle resistance to contemporary crises affecting those marginalized
due to issues of gender, sexual identity, race/ethnicity, class, disability,
and/or economic status. We welcome proposals from scholars in multiple fields
of inquiry focusing on areas of popular culture that include, but are not
limited to, film, TV, music, theatre, advertising, and social media. Special
consideration will be given to essays about Hamilton, The Last Jedi, Black
Panther, The Shape of Water, Get Out, video games, social media platforms, and
television shows.
deadline for the 500-word proposal: April 20, 2018
Direct inquires and proposals to: theapocalypsebook@gmail.com
Public Feminisms
Signs Call for
Papers
Even as antifeminist and right-wing forces have gained
footholds worldwide, feminists have forcefully asserted themselves in the
public sphere as key voices of resistance. Meanwhile, a shifting media
landscape has enabled contradictory dynamics: feminists—through innovative uses
of social media and online media outlets, as well as mainstream media—have
found (and created) platforms to amplify their public voices, yet the pool of
public intellectuals and the punditry continues to be largely dominated by
white men. This special issue seeks to address these dynamics through a
multifaceted and interdisciplinary discussion of “Public Feminisms.”
The deadline for submissions is September 15, 2018.
Contact Email: signs@northeastern.edu
Far-Right Revisionism
and the End of the History: Alt/Histories
An edited volume under contract with Routledge, Far-Right Revisionism and the End of the
History: Alt/Histories will bring together historians, anthropologists,
neuroscientists, literary scholars, theologians, cultural critics, and
sociologists to offer an interconnected and comparative collection which will
be a definitive study for understanding how contemporary far-right,
neo-fascist, Alt-Right, Identitarian, and New Right movements have proposed
revisions and counter-narratives to accepted understandings of history, fact,
and narrative. Together, these essays
will weave together questions of historiography, scientific investigation,
historical imagination, and point to the ways the far-right in Europe and the
United States has been using history and technology to reconstitute itself
nearly a century after fascism’s ugly head first appeared.
Proposal Deadline: 20 March 2018
Contact Email: LValencia@txstate.edu
Who’s Teaching Who:
Skepticism, Ethnocentrism, and Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Classroom
In his seminal work The Souls of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois
wrote that the single most pressing issue facing the United States was the
color line. More than 100 years later, the issue of race remains a pressing one
for the U.S. and research suggests that the racial divide permeates our
culture. Who’s Teaching Who will use Integrated Multicultural
Instructional Design (IMID) as a framework, and emancipatory pedagogies as
method, to provide a forum for administrators, faculty, staff and students to
engage in dialogue regarding educational practices that promote understanding
and develop intercultural competencies.
If you are interested in authoring a chapter, please send a
200-300-word abstract to whosteaching@gmail.com by April
30, 2018.
Contact Email: whosteaching@gmail.com
Food Porn
Global Humanities, a biannual, interdisciplinary, and
peer-reviewed journal in the humanities that is now available for open access
(https://altija.com/global-humanities/) is calling for paper proposals for
Volume 6, which will deal with food porn, a phenomenon mostly related to social
media and the idea of sharing images of food with friends and the broader
world. The phenomenon of food porn offers multiple approaches for the
humanities.
Scholars interested in submitting a paper are requested to
send a short proposal (max. 300 words) and a one page CV
until March 30, 2018 to FJacob@qcc.cuny.edu and francescom@gmail.com Final
articles, ranging from 6,500-10,000 words, including footnotes (latest
Chicago Manual of Style for notes) are expected by May 5, 2018.
Latin America
digit@l: current trends, legal dilemmas and ethical concerns
Trying to embrace this entire new spectrum of digital
phenomena requires not only an innovative and fresh reexamination of
traditional concepts like activism, community, intimacy and social
responsibility, especially when they are used to describe social relations in
digital milieus, but also the construction of legal and ethical frameworks that
clarify the boundaries in between private and public assets, and when it is
permissible to monitor operations of foreign régimes and international
corporations gathering and disseminating information electronically, for
example in seeking to influence elections in Las Americas.
Proposals Submission Deadline: 01 April 2018
E-mail: david.ramirez@redudg.udg.mx
Repeat
special issue of Thresholds
Works of art and architecture repeat: across global
exhibitions, digital directories, sites, and centuries. Does a repeat world, a
repeat future, predicate a landscape of the always already seen? Or does each
repetition mark a rupture--an opening out onto possibility? If repetition
harbors liberatory potential, so too does it carry an inherent danger: at a
moment when history is repeating itself--when currents of fascism, nationalism,
and xenophobia are flooding back into the present--notions of return and
recurrence appear particularly fraught. What does repetition propose, beyond
displacement and difference? In this issue of Thresholds we are especially
concerned with the urgent political stakes, investments, and ideologies that
always rush forward to condition repetition.
Contact Email: thresh@mit.edu
Synchronous Learning
Call for Proposals: Chapters for Edited Volume on
Synchronous Learning
This will be an edited volume of research studies focused on
synchronous learning in higher education settings. We are announcing a call for
proposals to submit a chapter proposal for this edited volume. We invite you to
share your experiences and knowledge of using synchronous tools in your
teaching. This book is scheduled to be published in 2019.
Proposals Submission Deadline: March 12, 2018
Contact Email: peggysemingson@gmail.com
Curatorial Care:
Humanising Practices – Past Presences and Present Encounters
Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies Call
for Papers
Using the exhibition and photographic portraiture as a
departure point, the conference will build upon a critical rethinking of
curatorial practice, as traditionally bound to a colonial logic of collection, arrangement, ‘safe-keeping’ and
display. Challenging the authorial custodianship associated with this
tradition, and its historic (but lingering) application in the ethnographic/raciogenic
arrangement of marginalised bodies, proposed in this reappraisal is an ethical
recourse to curatorial care – where contemporary practices linked to
traditional understandings of curating, as a ‘caring for objects’, are
reconstituted in relation to (re)-acknowledged subjectivities.
We invite curators, archivists, artists and other creative
practitioners, activists, collectives and cultural organisations to submit
abstracts towards papers presentations, performances, and film screenings that
engage with curating as a critical humanising practice.
Deadline for submission: 1 July 2018
Further inquiries about this open call can be addressed
to criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za.
Genealogy and
Multiracial Family Histories
This Special Issue of Genealogy invites essays on the topic,
“Genealogy and Multiracial Family Histories.” Manuscripts may focus on families
with spouses of different designated racial groups who may also have children
who are understood to be multiracial as well as multigenerational mixed-race
families that celebrate the multiraciality in their genealogy. The common
denominator would be to explore how families with multiracial (or mixed-race)
members (whether parents, siblings, or both/all) narrate their family histories
(with a special focus on how they frame/reframe the salience of race and
ethnicity in the process). The editorial team hopes to provide a wide spectrum
with regard to discipline or sub-discipline and invites contributions that
strengthen and broaden the framework for genealogy studies.
Deadline: 15 June 2018
Anyone wants to
submit Please contact Guest Editor Dr. G. Reginald Daniel (rdaniel@soc.ucsb.edu) Journal managing editor Ms. Allie Shi(genealogy@mdpi.com)
Of Sacred Crossroads:
Cultural Studies and the Sacred
This is a call for proposals to be published as a special
issue that concerns itself with offering new ways in which the sacred is
represented in the popular realm or communicated at the intersection of the
secularization of society and its inherent ideological, philosophical,
existential and methodological crises.
The issue will present a variety of voices, some new, some
experienced, all wrestling with ideas about and perspectives on the sacred. The
special issue will have a truly international scope, both in subject and voice.
Each essay will provide a different perspective on the sacred, revealing,
through a Cultural Studies lens, diversity of practices, multifaceted nature of
beliefs, ceremony, and ritual.
Expressions of interest and submission of abstracts should
be sent no later than March 15, 2018 to the Editor, Dr.
Sonjah Stanley Niaah at sonjahstanleyniaah@gmail.com.
The final date for submission of full papers is April 30, 2018 via
the following online submission system (http://www.editorialmanager.com/culture).
Law, the Body and
Embodiment: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
This special issue (journal to be announced) wishes to
foreground the body and embodiment in relation to the law, from both contemporary
and historical perspectives. In so doing, this CFP invites contributions that
consider the following, but not exclusively: what is the relationship between
law and the body, and law and embodiment? How does the law preclude, encourage,
marginalize, or stratify particular kinds of embodiment, if at all – and how
are particular kinds of embodiment gendered, sexed, classed and/or racialized?
Submission of abstracts: 15 May 2018
Contact Email: lindarolandd@gmail.com
Reflexivity in
Qualitative Social Science Research
Graduate Journal of Social Science special issue
Critical approaches to qualitative research in social
sciences mandate researcher reflexivity with respect to researchers’ biases,
values, and experiences. Researchers’ self-awareness of their social, cultural,
and political location(s) vis-à-vis research relationships and practices is a
crucial element of the research process that helps enhance trustworthiness. It
is also important for researchers to acknowledge and address the inherent
asymmetry of power between themselves and the research participants. For this
special issue, we are interested in exploring in-depth the role of reflexivity
in qualitative social science research, especially in relation to addressing
power and privilege in research relationships and practices.
Abstract submission deadline: March 15, 2018
Contact Email: reflexivity.in.research@gmail.com
URL: http://www.gjss.org
Political Genealogy
after Foucault
Genealogy is now accepting submissions for a Special Issue
on the theme, “Political Genealogy After Foucault.” Inspired by the work of
Michel Foucault, this issue invites essays from scholars employing political
genealogy as a methodology and model of theoretical inquiry representing a wide
range of disciplines, from the social sciences to the humanities, from
philosophy to geography to urban studies to cultural theory. The goal of this
special issue is to publish some of the best and most current work in political
genealogy, showing how this work invites us to rethink many of the key concepts
in political theory as well as real ground-level political practice. Broadly
conceived, the editorial team is interested in articles which demonstrate how
political genealogy helps us to understand what Foucault calls “the history of
our present,” while at the same time looking to our future, to what being a
political subject will look like in a post-representational world.
Deadline: 1 June 2018
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Gun Violence in the
United States
On December 14, 2012, Adam Lanza entered Sandy Hook
Elementary School and began shooting. When the shooting stopped, Lanza had
killed 20 small children and six staff members. What should have been a turning
point in our public policy concerning guns and public safety became, instead, a
testament to the power of the gun lobby. The aftermath of Newtown revealed our
worst impulses. We worry that, in the wake of the recent school shooting at
Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, our country will
continue to succumb to its worst impulses. It is time, with one voice, to
advance our best. As part of that project, The Activist History Review invites
proposals that address the causes of epidemic gun violence in the U.S.
Proposals should be no more than 250 words for articles from
1250-2000 words, and should be emailed to William Horne at horne.activisthistory@gmail.com
by Friday, March 16th at 11:59 PM.
Constructing and
Controlling Indigenous Identity Through Place: ‘Location, Location, Location
Indigenous identity is connected to place, perhaps rooted
most strongly in the relationship between place and self rather than simply the
location itself. In the chapter “A Better World Becoming: Placing Critical
Indigenous Studies” appearing in Aileen Moreton’s essay collection Critical
Indigenous Studies: Engagements in First World Locations, Daniel Heath Justice
explains that, “Belonging is about being woven into the fabric of the land and
its legacies, accepting the knowledge that your future is a shared future . .
.” (26).
Submissions may address any aspect of Indigenous identity,
factors that construct or control it, or the relationship between Indigenous
identity and place. Proposed submissions may draw upon or respond to
contemporary critical Indigenous scholarship, literature either by Indigenous
authors or having Indigenous representation, filmic representations of
Indigeneity, or creative works that connect to the overall theme of Indigenous
identity and place. Creative submissions are also welcomed.
Deadline for submissions is June 1, 2018 at 11:59pm.
(Un)Ethical Futures:
Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction
We are interested in submissions that explore the ethical
dimensions of utopia, dystopia and science fiction (sf). This focus on ethics
allows for a range of topics, including environmental ethics and climate change,
human bioethics, animal ethics, the ethical use of technology, ethics of
alterity and otherness, as well as related issues of social justice. We welcome
submissions that bring these ethical considerations into dialogue with
speculative fiction across different genres and modes, from sf about the near
or distant future, to alternative histories about better or worse presents, to
stories about utopian or dystopian societies.
Deadline for submissions: 30 April 2018.
Please direct all submissions and enquiries to utopias-conference@monash.edu
Disability and Shame
The Review of Disability Studies: An International
Journal is issuing a Call for Papers for a special forum on the
subject of shame and disability, broadly conceived. It is hoped that through
critical discourse addressing the historical and current contexts, contributing
factors, effects, and responses to shame, greater understanding of this
phenomena will diminish discrimination and violence.
Full papers should be submitted directly to RDS online
at http://bit.ly/RDS_AuthorGuidelines no later
than June 1, 2018. Please submit to the category “Forum -
Disability and Shame”.
For questions about the content of the Forum, please contact
the guest editors John Jones, jjones@truman.edu,
Dana Lee Baker,bakerdl@wsu.edu, or
Stephanie Patterson, stephanie.patterson@stonybrook.edu.
For questions about the submissions process, please
contact rdsj@hawaii.edu
The ethnographic turn
Critical Arts has hosted a number of special issues that
revisit the “ethnographic turn” in contemporary art. The aim of these issues
has been to explore how artists engage with anthropological and ethnographic
perspectives in their work, starting from the many forms in which art can
present itself today. Each of these issues engages critically with the
ethnographic turn in contemporary art by focusing on practice-led research and
by offering a forum for artists and anthropologists themselves to explore the
intersections in their work and to counter and grapple with criticism regarding
their practices.
Because of the ongoing complexity of practice-led research
in general, and artistic research with a focus on ethnography in particular,
Critical Arts will issue an open call for papers, inviting papers and vignettes
that explore issues with regard to artistic research, (ethnographic) knowledge,
and (cultural) difference.
To be considered for publication in 2019, full papers should
be submitted by 1 June 2018.
Further inquiries about this open call can be addressed
to criticalarts@ukzn.ac.za.
Information and instructions for authors can be found
at www.tandf.co.uk/journals/RCRC
Misperformance:
Staging Law and Justice in the African Diaspora
Callaloo invites poetry, visual art, essays, and critical
articles on misperformance and the law in the Black Atlantic.
The mis- in misperformance evokes two central and
interrelated ideas. It evokes the failures of colonial justice to close and
redress the social breaches left by colonial crimes. However, beyond the idea
of failure, it speaks to the critical creative forms of agency that arise from
such failure. It suggests notions of defiance, of a breaking of the rules, of
resistance—in sum, a refusal to comply, a misbehavior. Indeed, misperformance
points to an unwillingness to consider Empire’s crimes as closed or archived.
It speaks to an opening up and an opening out of disavowed histories and of the
modes of memory and remembering that such moves engage in the current moment.
This interplay and interrelation between failure and its productive potentials
can, we believe, animate a series of questions around justice, imperialism, and
performance in the present.
Manuscripts must be submitted online through the Callaloo manuscript
submission system by November 23, 2018. Please see the submission
guidelines here: http://callaloo.expressacademic.org/login.php.
Please direct questions or other correspondence to the Guest
Editor for this issue: Jason Allen-Paisant (allenjasonj@gmail.com)
Sports as Art, as
Resistance
Callaloo invites complete submissions for a special issue
devoted to the interdisciplinary examination of sports.
While sports have occupied the global imagination as a
source of entertainment, enlightenment, and, above all, opportunity,
historically we have seen the importance of black athletes using their
celebrity to bring attention to the ills which haunt black life around the
world. In fact, from the beginning of
the twentieth century to today, there have been numerous individuals who have
challenged both directly and indirectly the "isms" responsible for
shaping North American, European, and South American cultures. While most of these moments involve people of
African descent competing against whites in an attempt to claim victory in the
arena, and the financial rewards and social mobility that coincided, the
greater goal of these black athletes was to claim their humanity and
citizenship, and a place for their race in society through their performances
on, for example, the playing field or the court.
The guest editors are seeking unpublished and complete
critical articles, creative essays, poems, interviews, creative personal
narratives, and visual art on “Sports as Art, as Resistance” from a variety of
critical, creative, and interpretive perspectives.
Manuscripts must be submitted online through the Callaloo manuscript
submission system by August 31, 2018. Please see the submission guidelines
here: http://callaloo.expressacademic.org/login.php.
Who’s Teaching Who:
Skepticism, Ethnocentrism, and Emancipatory Pedagogy in the Classroom
Who’s Teaching Who will use Integrated Multicultural
Instructional Design (IMID) as a framework, and emancipatory pedagogies as
method, to provide a forum for administrators, faculty, staff and students to
engage in dialogue regarding educational practices that promote understanding
and develop intercultural competencies.
This pedagogical model responds to the growing student diversity in
postsecondary institutions in the U.S. and throughout the world by integrating
the four sides of the IMID pyramid--how we teach, what we teach, how we support
learning (in the classroom and institutionally), and how we assess learning.
We invite contributions from various disciplines and
methodological approaches including but not limited to: Languages, English,
Performing Arts, Communication, Ethnic Studies, History, Journalism, Legal
Studies, Political Science, Psychology, and Sociology.
If you are interested in authoring a chapter, please send a
200-300-word abstract to whosteaching@gmail.com by
April 1, 2018.
Contact Email: whosteaching@gmail.com
Road Trip! On the
Road to Democracy and the American Dream
This interdisciplinary edited collection will explore the
importance of the open road to democracy and the enduring American dream.
Contributions from all humanities fields are welcome. Potential topics include:
road trip literature and films; the road as counterculture; photography and
art; roadside attractions; the interstate highway system; national parks;
family vacations; the American dream; women and the road; and the African
American experience. For consideration please submit a one-page proposal and
curriculum vitae via e-mail to morgane@uwgb.edu by
December 1, 2018. Final chapters of up to 10,000 words including notes will be
due by September 1, 2019.
Contact Email: morgane@uwgb.edu
Genealogy and
Immigration
This Special Issue of Genealogy invites essays on the topic,
“Genealogy and Immigration”. The goal of the issue is to examine the
relationship between genealogy and immigration. Highlighting the connections
between and among genealogy, immigration, migration, and family history is at
the forefront of this issue. Contributors are asked to explain how and/or where
genealogy and immigration intersect and the impact these connections might have
upon the development of families over time. The editorial team hopes to provide
a wide spectrum with regard to discipline or sub-discipline and invites
contributions that strengthen and broaden the framework for genealogy studies.
Deadline: 1 September 2018
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Nations in Time:
Genealogy, History and the Narration of Time
The ways in which nations and nationalism give shape to and
maintain awareness and consciousness of time to members of nations and the
importance of interpretation of the past in maintaining nations have been
widely examined in the study of nations and nationalism under various headings
including the use and abuse of history, the distinction between official and
‘ethno-‘ history, nations without history and so on. Building on these works,
the special issue aims to examine the specificity of genealogy as way of comprehending
time in the formation and maintenance of nations and in articulating
nationalism. In other words, what does genealogy bring to nations and
nationalism that history, chronology, myths or legends do not? The special
issue invites contributions to investigate the relationship between nations and
time focusing on the characteristics of genealogy as a way of making sense of
time and the past.
Contact Email: genealogy@mdpi.com
Black Lives Matter:
Culturally Sustaining, Responsive and Relevant Pedagogy in Higher Education
This special edition of Africology: The Journal of Pan
African Studies, titled ‘Black Lives Matter: Culturally Sustaining, Responsive
and Relevant Pedagogy in Higher Education’ is designed to examine the goals,
objectives, leadership and other details of the movement in regards the
pedagogy of Black Lives Matter in higher education (or education in general).
Discussion, interviews, art work and other expressive communication that
involve Black Lives Matter is welcomed and encouraged.
Please send your abstract by or before April 27, 2018 to Dr.
Eric R. Jackson (jacksoner@nku.edu).
Law and Art
The aim of this edited collection will be to provide one of
the leading guides on the intersections between law and art. The edited collection will therefore bring
together a wide range of theorists in relation to, amongst other things,
critical approaches to law and art, the intersection between law and art and
their mutual relationship, legal categories and definitions and vis-à-vis art
movements and particular artworks, and law and art theories.
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 June 2018
Enquires and proposals welcome: Contact Dr. Linda Roland
Danil: lindarolandd@gmail.com
Social Phobias and the Politics of Fear: Causes and
Resistance Manufacturing the “Other”: Xenophobia, Fascism, the Alt-Right and
More
That collection, put
together before the rise of Trump and the alt-Right, prefigured and predicted
many of the essential features of those reactionary political movements and
perspectives. Now, more than a year into the Trump regime, with open
mobilization of fascists in diverse liberal democracies, street battles between
fascists and antifascists (ANTIFA), and the killing of antifascists (like
Heather Heyer in Charlottesville) and antiracists (as in Portland, Oregon) by
far Rightists, there is a pressing need to explore the causes of social
phobias, understand the practices governments and community groups that promote
and pursue phobic politics, and to assess the state of resistance to social
phobias. Thus, we call for papers on topics related to causes, resistance to
and alternatives to social phobias and fear politics in the current period.
Papers will be
presented publicly for feedback and discussion, hopefully making contributions
to community debates and active struggles, at a three-day conference during
February of 2019 in Vancouver, unceded Coast Salish Territories (BC). These
papers will then be collected in a special volume on Causes and Resistance to
Social Phobias, edited by Hisham Ramadan and Jeff Shantz.
Please submit
abstracts of around 300 words to both of the conference organizers: Hisham
Ramadan <hisham444@hotmail.com> and Jeff Shantz <drjshantz@gmail.com> by May 1, 2018.
FUNDING
Outstanding Article
or Book Chapter Award
In 2018, the Disability History Association (DHA) award
committee will accept article and book chapter submissions. Submissions are
welcome from scholars in all fields who engage in work relating to the history
of disability. Article and book chapter submissions may have one or multiple
authors. They must contain new and original scholarship. Although the award is
open to all authors covering all geographic areas and time periods, the
publication must be in English, and must have a publication date within the
year preceding the submission date (i.e. 1/1/2017 – 5/1/2018). All submissions
should be sent to the award committee care of Michael Rembis at marembis@buffalo.edu no later than May
1, 2018.
Donald Durnbaugh
Starting Scholar Award
Scholars of any age early in their careers are encouraged to
submit papers on any aspect of intentional communities, past or present, for
consideration for the Donald Durnbaugh Starting Scholar Award. Candidates need
not have any organizational affiliation or academic connections. Each paper
will be judged on its own merit and its suitability for publication in the
Communal Societies journal.
Deadline for Submissions:
June 1, 2018
Confronting and
Combatting Othering in English Studies
The Journal of South Texas English Studies is accepting
submissions for its Summer 2018 issue, themed “Confronting and Combatting
Othering in English Studies.”
In this upcoming issue, we ask the loaded question: what is
the responsibility of English Studies in confronting, combatting, and maybe
even dismantling the Othering trajectory that the world seems to be on? How do
we create a pedagogy of democracy in our classrooms, our writings, our
research, and our extracurricular activities that foster true inclusion,
solidarity, and intersectionality?
Please consult
our submission guidelines here: http://southtexasenglish.blogspot.com/p/guidelines.html
For additional information, including submission guidelines,
please visit the journal’s website: http://www.southtexasenglish.blogspot.com/.
Contact Email: southtexasenglishstudies@gmail.com
Submission deadline: May 20, 2018.
Coordinating Council for Women in History 2018 Awards and
Prizes
CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship 2018
The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the
Berkshire Conference of Women’s History Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000
award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a History Department.
The award is intended to support either a crucial stage of research or the
final year of writing. The applicant must be a CCWH member; must be a graduate
student in history in a U.S. institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by
the time of application; may specialize in any field of history; may hold this
award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award ceremony to receive
the award. The deadline for the award is 15 May 2018. Please go to www.theccwh.org for membership and
online application details.
CCWH Ida B. Wells Graduate Student Fellowship 2018
The Coordinating Council for Women in History Ida B. Wells
Graduate Student Fellowship is an annual award of $1000 given to a graduate
student working on a historical dissertation that interrogates race and gender,
not necessarily in a history department. The award is intended to support
either a crucial stage of research or the final year of writing. The applicant
must be a CCWH member; must be a graduate student in any department of a U.S.
institution; must have passed to A.B.D. status by the time of application; may
hold this award and others simultaneously; and need not attend the award
ceremony to receive the award. The deadline for the award is 15 May 2018.
Please go to www.theccwh.org for
membership and online application details.
Contact Email: execdir@theccwh.org
Digital Humanities
Fellowships and Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellowships
The American Philosophical Society Library is pleased to
offer the following funding opportunites for scholars working on projects in
the digital humanities in all fields. Additional opportunities are
also available for those working on digital projects with Native communities.
The Digital Humanities Fellowship, for up to two months, is
open to scholars who are comfortable creating tools and visualizations, as well
as those interested in working collaboratively with the APS technology team.
Scholars, including graduate students, at any stage of their career may apply. Further information about the fellowship and
application process can be found at https://apply.interfolio.com/46255.
Andrew W. Mellon
Native American Scholars Initiative (NASI) Digital Knowledge Sharing Fellowships
are open to scholars working on Native American and Indigenous topics who need
to do archival research at the APS Library or elsewhere in order to complete
their projects. Further information about the fellowship and application
process can be found at https://apply.interfolio.com/47008.
For additional information about fellowships and grants
please visit: www.amphilsoc.org/grants/fellowships.
The deadline for applications is March 2, 2018
WORKSHOPS
Strange Bedfellows /
Unexpected Allies
Berlin Program Summer Workshop, June 27 – 29, 2018
From de Gaulle to Khrushchev, from the Christian Democrats
to displaced refugees, from Putin to Trump, from the drag queen Olivia Jones to
right-wing politician Frauke Petry, politics can make for “surprising
partnerships.” These are perplexing times to be certain. But peculiar alliances
or combinations are common in a variety of historical and political contexts as
well as in a diverse array of cultural and artistic engagements. The Berlin
Program Summer Workshop 2018 invites contributions from scholars, artists,
representatives of cultural institutions, and engaged others on the topic of
“strange bedfellows” as well as “unexpected allies.” This workshop seeks to
advance critical reflection on these phenomena, their usefulness and potential
limits as narrative devices in a broad array of disciplines that intersect with
German Studies, including Anthropology, Art History, Film Studies, Gender
Studies, History, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology.
Please submit one PDF file containing
a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV by March 15, 2018 to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
a 250-word abstract and a two-page CV by March 15, 2018 to bprogram@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Histories of
Migration: Transatlantic and Global Perspectives
UC Berkeley, October 17 - 20, 2018
The Bucerius Young Scholars Forum, funded by the
ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius, is an annual program designed to bring
together a transatlantic group of ten junior scholars from Germany, Europe and
North America to explore new research and questions in the history of migration
with a particular focus on questions arising from interlacing the perspectives
of migration and knowledge. We call for empirically rich papers that rephrase
questions and methodological issues in migration history from a history of
knowledge perspective or vice versa. The Bucerius Young Scholars Forum aims to
look at the knowledge and migration nexus from a supra-epochal, transregional,
or interdisciplinary perspective and seeks to account for categories such as
religion, ethnicity, gender, or age and generation. While the focus of the
forum will be on historic discourses, we encourage applications from emerging
scholars working in the social sciences, political sciences, or the fields of
anthropology, migration, and area studies.
Please send short proposals (750 words max.) and a one-page
CV to Heike Friedman (friedman@ghi-dc.org)
by March 15, 2018.
Cities in Flux:
Ethnographic and Theoretical Challenges
Cambridge, UK, 23-29 July 2018
This five-day Summer School and two-day Seminar – organised
and hosted by Anglia Ruskin University under the auspices of the International
Urban Symposium (IUS) – will bring together social anthropologists,
sociologists, urban planners, architects, and human geographers committed to
empirically-grounded analysis of cities in order to examine a number of
pressing methodological and theoretical questions relating to urban change. The
primary aim of the School is to train students in the ‘art’ of conducting
ethnographic fieldwork and developing analysis based on said ethnography.
Deadline for Application: 30 March 2018
For more information, see: www.internationalurbansymposium.com/events2018/
Information and details on how to apply are
available at:
JOB/INTERNSHIP
Reviewers &
Copyeditors Wanted (Volunteer)
With a focus on film's visual narrative,Mise-en-scène: The
Journal of Film and Visual Narration (ISSN 2369-5056) is the first of its kind:
a peer-reviewed journal dedicated exclusively to the artistry of frame
composition as a storytelling technique. In adopting a fully open-access,
open-review publishing model, Mise-en-scène strives to provide a synergistic
forum for discourse that begins at the level of the frame. Scholarly analysis
of lighting, set design, costuming, camera angles, camera proximities, depth of
field, and character placement are just some of the topics that the journal
covers.
Published twice a year by Simon Fraser University, Mise-en-scène is
the official journal of the film studies program at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in
Vancouver, Canada. It is listed in EBSCO's film and Television Literature
Index.
Currently, we are on the lookout for content experts to add
to the Mise-en-scène reviewer database. We are also looking to add a copyeditor
to the team. This position would involve working with the author and editor on
the technical revisions of a manuscript.
For more information about becoming a volunteer reviewer or
copyeditor for Mise-en-scène, please contact Editor-in-chief
Greg Chan at greg.chan@kpu.ca.
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